A Productive Weekend!

I had a very productive weekend. Last week I told you I was going to unmount all of my Stampin' Up stamps, well I did it. After taking baby steps on those first few, I went all out. Just look at the room I am saving. I unmounted 25 sets. In the boxes, on wood they were 29" tall, in the CD cases only 10". I have 6 more sets I need to unmount, mostly alphabets.

I had a girlfriend over on Saturday to scrapbook with. She was working on a scrapbook for a gift. I worked on a box for my Secret Santa.

(Nichole working hard, she did such a great job on her scrapbook)

She brought over these super yummy cupcakes that she bought at Byerly's. They were oh so much better than Hostess. (and yes, they were as big as they look)

Here's my Secret Santa box all finished. It started out as one of these brown unfinished hard cardboard type boxes. My Secret Santa's favorite color is green. So I bought some scrapbook paper, and green accessories (that beautiful butterfly) at Michaels and used Mod Podge to glue everything. I found some awesome old tarnished tinsel garland I had, and added that to the top.

And then on Sunday I went to my friend Judiths for our monthly ATC group get-together.

Here's everyone, eating the most WONDERFUL Scones I've EVER had.

Just look at them! we had raspberry jam and Devonshire cream with them-Yummy!

The table was decorated so nicely with Halloween decorations.

And then we had a demonstration of using distress inks, glimmer mist with stencils and using the cuttle bug/big shot with spellbinders and other dies.

Yep...I took the big step!

I decided to unmount my wood stamps. I watched a lot of tutorials on how to do it. Started with my small SU stamps. (felt like I needed to take baby steps). I only did 3 sets on Sunday, and look at the room I already saved. 3 sets = 2 CD cases and about 4" of gained space.


(Sorry about the glare.) Space comparison.

So as I unmount them I put them in a CD case and created a P-Touch label that I put next to the set that says the year, how many are in the set and the name of the set. I just started to label the spines of the CD cases in numerical order Stampin' Up 1, Stampin' Up 2...etc. Then what I decided I am going to do is stamp index cards of the sets in the CD cases. So Stampin' Up 1 will be on a index card, and so on and so fourth. Then keep them all on a ring. That way it will be easy to add to the sets, as well as see what I have. I actually might do this for all my stamps.

How do you guys organize your stamps?

(oh, side note: I microwaved the stamp for 10 seconds-rubber side up, and it just pealed off of the block. There is enough residue left that it stays sticky enough for an acrylic block.)